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krunch-ur opinion of DD and Lockler is dead wrong, esp the "DD is a better T than Lockler ever was or will be and were the same last yr"

For starters, Lockler was an 8 yr starting vet for Seattle iirc, he was their RT that SB season. 2nd, one season he played LT when their staple LT was hurt for the year. 3rd, while the PFF grade between the 2 individually may have not been drastic (altho still in Locklers favor), the line as a unit performed better when Lockler was in in a majority of the aspects. If u go by PFF grade, DD ended up having a better yr than several OT's that he simply did not outperform. IIRC, it was enigma or another respected poster here who raised the credibility issue for that 1 specific aspect and challeneged the validity, but it was a long time ago.
Point is, DD is a great Giant. that said, id take a healthy Lockler over DD at this point any day of the week and twice on sunday

Just looking at PFF as Roanoke mentioned for example. It's a pretty tricky site to navigate through, but if you spend a little time you can find all of the information there. In fact, they even mention how in real time they would think DD would score much lower than he actually does, but when the plays are reviewed he is not at all as bad as some fans made him out to be. He scores similarly to Locklear last year. There is no huge gap.

Clearly we need a long term solution and neither of them are it -- But I'm just pointing out that this idea that Locklear performed at a much better level than Diehl did last year is absolutely false and has no basis in truth.